Steel variation

[Aaron Beck]

"two apprentice crolle"

[Drew Hause]

This is one segment.

I think the red marks at the bottom indicate the ribband edge welds, and the blue the 3 'scrolls' between the squished scrolls at the ribband edges which were 'jumped' or edge to edge butt welded - so it would be a 4 Iron crolle.

The 'smudged' areas within the white indicate IMHO decarburization - excessive heating of the metal causing loss of carbon and therefore lack of contrast with staining



The white arrows indicate decarburization lines. Another example - Parker 6 Iron "Turkish"

[Drew Hause]

A much more aesthetically pleasing segment with more symmetric scrolls.
The red marks indicate the ribband edge welds - note how straight the weld at the red arrow is.

I think the white is a decarburization line



Clearly one of the steel alternees stained much more darkly and one can only assume a much higher carbon strip of steel was 'stacked' into 'lopin'.
Hard to count but I think the 'lopin' had 6 steel and 6 iron alternees.

[Drew Hause]

This is a mess. Mismatched tube segments again with decarburization.
The big 'stars' I think were related to 'inexpert' twisting of the rods

[Bruce P Bruner]

[QUOTE=Drew Hause;387611]This is a mess. Mismatched tube segments again with decarburization.
The big 'stars' I think were related to 'inexpert' twisting of the rods

The “big stars” are what I normally see in Crolle patterns. An aestheticly pleasing pattern in my opinion.

[Drew Hause]

This is what Parker 4 Iron "Turkish Star" is suppose to look like
Symmetric and alternating black (steel) and white (iron) stars between the scrolls